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Retrogithub.comOct 22

Someone simulated a Commodore 64 pin by pin, so you can break it on purpose

A developer who goes by antirez put c64-hw-sim on GitHub, and it simulates the Commodore 64's motherboard pin by pin.

Retrotheregister.comOct 22

The man who put Lemmings on the Palm Pilot just put his whole Palm OS toolbox on GitHub

Aaron Ardiri, the developer behind the Palm OS port of Lemmings, just published about a gigabyte of old Palm OS development material on GitHub.

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Retroen.wikipedia.orgOct 22

Windows 98 just got USB 3 and Thunderbolt drivers, 28 years late

Windows 98 went on sale on June 25, 1998, according to Wikipedia, and in 2026 it can read a Thunderbolt NVMe drive.

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Retrohackaday.comOct 22

One hobbyist built a working laptop around a 6502, the chip inside the Apple II

A maker who goes by TechPaula built a laptop around a 6502, the 8-bit chip from the 1970s that Hackaday points out was in the Apple II, and now they've finished a second one.

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Retrodorchester3d.comOct 21

He wanted a Spectrum laptop, so he built one

"I wanted a Spectrum Next laptop.

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Retromacrumors.comOct 21

Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser

Apple cancelled Copland in August 1996, and you can now boot it in a browser tab.

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Developer Taleskennedn.comOct 20

A maker finally finished an Xbox 360 project from nine years ago

The blogger behind Kennedn's Blog bought a Matrix CoolRunner in 2017, a modchip built to hit an Xbox 360 with a pulse of about 100 nanoseconds, and shelved the project when it didn't work out.

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Retrohackaday.ioOct 20

Two Commodore 64 sound chips get a USB connection to modern computers

A maker who goes by LouD built a board that plugs real Commodore 64 sound chips into a modern computer.

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Retro0x3.jawncon.orgOct 20

JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus

JawnCon, Philadelphia's hacker conference, built this year's schedule as a HyperCard stack and runs it "in a Macintosh Plus, in a 68k emulator in your browser," according to the event's schedule page, though a plain web version is there too for anyone in a hurry.

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Retrogithub.comOct 20

Duke Nukem 3D now fits on a tiny RP2350 board

Duke Nukem 3D now runs on a microcontroller.

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Weird Techk.sosnierz.meOct 20

Moby-Dick takes over 19 hours to scroll through this tiny GIF

Kamil Sosnierz put Moby-Dick into an animated GIF measuring 88 by 31 pixels.

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Retrohackaday.comOct 20

A tool called Wafel checks whether your Wii U storage is failing

The Wii U's weak spot is its internal storage, and a tool called Wafel Installer can now test it from the console's own web browser.

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Hacks & Buildslukaswerner.comOct 20

Lukas Werner's VGA project makes room for the pixels you never see

Lukas Werner's VGA tutorial describes counting beyond a 640-by-480 picture to account for the time outside the visible image.

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Retrogithub.comOct 14

You can play PS2 games in a browser now, recompiled from the original code

PlayStation 2 games are running in a web browser, no emulator attached.

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Hacks & Buildsyoutube.comOct 12

A YouTuber 3D printed a working mechanical calculator out of 109 pieces, and it only adds and multiplies

The maker behind the YouTube channel 3D all Workshop spent two months building a pocket calculator with no metal springs, no screws and nothing he couldn't make on his 3D printer.

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Weird Techcedardb.comOct 7

Somebody ported the original Doom to SQL

Lukas Vogel at CedarDB ported the original 1993 Doom to SQL, the language most of us use for pulling rows out of databases.

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